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1:25 PM ET, September 17, 2014

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Justin McCarthy / Gallup:

Trust in Mass Media Returns to All-Time Low — Six-percentage-point drops in trust among Democrats and Republicans — WASHINGTON, D.C. — After registering slightly higher trust last year, Americans' confidence in the media's ability to report “the news fully, accurately, and fairly” has returned to its previous all-time low of 40%.

Discussion: TVNewser, The Huffington Post, Poynter, Washington Post, @corbettreport, @brianstelter, BREITBART.COM, @motokorich and US News

Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:

Journalism curator Longform launching first iPhone app — Longform.org, which spotlights quality non-fiction writing on the Web, is rolling out its first app for iPhones on Wednesday, timed to the release of Apple's iOS 8 operating system. — The journalism curator's debut app launched in 2012, but was available only on iPads.

Discussion: Forbes, Newsweek, 10,000 Words, @niemanlab, @noahchestnut and American Press Institute

Gautam Naik / Wall Street Journal:

‘Poop & Pooches,’ a Magazine Devoted to Dog-Haters, Is a Hit in Germany — Biting Satire Makes Readers Sit Up, Roll Over, Beg — HAMBURG—In 1992, four journalists sat at a local pub and played a drunken game: What's the most absurd magazine title you can come up with?

Discussion: NPR, International Business Times, hngn.com, The Rakyat Post, @wsj, @timaeppel, @publicroad, @andrewlavallee, @raju and @ding_jin

The New Republic:

Chris Hughes steps down as Editor-in-Chief of The New Republic, former Yahoo News GM Guy Vidra named CEO — The New Republic names Guy Vidra, General Manager of Yahoo News, as Chief Executive Officer — Washington, DC and New York, NY (September 17, 2014) - The New Republic today announced …

Discussion: New York Times, Politico, FishbowlNY, FishbowlDC, Capital New York, Author Interviews and @mlcalderone

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Parade magazine about to be sold to Athlon Media — Parade magazine, the 73-year- old Sunday magazine owned by the Newhouse family's Advance Publications for the past 38 years, is about to be sold to Athlon Media, Media Ink has learned. — Athlon, whose American Profile is the No. 3 player …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, MediaWire Daily and Mynextfone.co.uk …

John Plunkett / Guardian:

Mail Online's ad revenues rise nearly 50% year on year — Website's success offsets continuing decline in print advertising at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday — Mail Online: total ad revenues of £53m in the 11 months to the end of August — Mail Online's advertising revenues increased …

Discussion: The Motley Fool UK, @jallford, RTTNews, Financial Times and American Press Institute

Jordan Zakarin / The Wrap:

Arianna Huffington on HuffPost's Upcoming Middle East Edition, Doc Ambitions and 115 Million Unique Visitors — Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington emailed her entire staff Monday with an important message: HuffPost had hit 115 million unique visitors on ComScore for the month of August …

Discussion: Digiday and @niemanlab

Rod Nordland / New York Times:

In Brutal Year for News Media in Afghanistan, a 7th Journalist Is Killed — KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan woman has become the seventh journalist killed in Afghanistan so far this year, an Afghan media group said Wednesday, adding to a toll that has already made 2014 by far the deadliest year …

Discussion: @cjchivers, @eckholm, @floydwhaley, The Nation and Khaama Press (KP)

Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:

66% black and 75% Hispanic news consumers doubt media reports about their communities — BLACKS, HISPANICS HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT MEDIA ACCURACY — WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study shows a large majority of African-American and Hispanic news consumers don't fully trust the media to portray …

Discussion: American Press Institute, FishbowlNY, Politico, @tbr1, @jasfly and Poynter

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

How linking to knowledge can help attract a solvent audience for news publishers — How Linking to Knowledge Could Boost News Media — A key way to differentiate value-added news from commodity contents is to rework the notion of linking. Thanks to semantics and APIs, we could move from dumb links to knowledge linking.

Discussion: @mjbroersma

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

Facebook launches a new ‘best of’ page for media companies — Facebook has launched a new “Facebook Media” page today that's intended to show off media companies and public figures that use the social service most effectively. — The move shows that Facebook definitely puts value …

Discussion: Marketing Land, Facebook Media and Inside Facebook

Mark Scott / New York Times:

Sky Deutschland Tells Investors to Reject BSkyB Offer — LONDON — The European expansion plans of the pay-television giant British Sky Broadcasting Group have hit a snag. — The executive board of Sky Deutschland told investors on Wednesday to reject BSkyB's multi-billion dollar takeover approach for the German broadcaster.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Broadband TV News, Reuters, Advanced Television, City A.M., Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter and London Evening Standard

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:

With New Ad Measure, The Economist Emphasizes Quality Over Quantity — The Economist is rolling out new set of audience measurements for advertisers on its mobile applications and website, hoping to lure more digital ad dollars by highlighting how much time readers spend with its content.

Discussion: @lisamurphyto, @jayrosen_nyu and @wsjcmo

Max Mason / Sydney Morning Herald:

Netflix secures Australian streaming rights to Batman prequel series ‘Gotham’ — Providing the biggest hint yet that Netflix is preparing to launch locally, the US-based company has secured exclusive Australian subscription video on-demand rights to the highly anticipated superhero television series Gotham.

Discussion: Variety, Pedestrian TV, CraveOnline and Gizmodo Australia

Tara Conlan / Guardian:

Scottish independence referendum: news organisations step up security — Scottish independence: the BBC's Nick Robinson came under fire over his Alex Salmond interview. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian — As security is stepped up by the BBC and the Scotsman in the runup …

Discussion: Press Association

Michelle Castillo / Adweek:

InboundWriter helps editors find clickable story ideas — InboundWriter helps editors find clickable story ideas — Usually writers and editors depend on their wealth of knowledge and instincts when it comes to picking what to write about. InboundWriter, however, believes that the fine art …

Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:

The Reporters Committee is about to start suing people to help journalists — Katie Townsend joins the organization as its first litigation director — Fair warning, all ye who interfere with newsgathering: The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is getting ready to sue you.

Discussion: @meghanhoyer, @bobsegallwthr, @chanteljennings and The Newspaper Guild

Andy Newman / New York Times:

Seeking clicks rather than truth, NY Meta is a mix of real and fake viral stories — Fake News Story Causes Real Headache at Coney Island — For fans of the new Thunderbolt roller coaster at Coney Island and anyone who might be thinking of riding it, an article making the rounds on social media last week contained sobering news.

William Turvill / Press Gazette:

Independent editor Amol Rajan: 'There's nothing unclear about it, the future's digital' — 'There's nothing unclear about it: the future's digital' — Free model is working for Independent website but it is “under constant review and it might be that in a year, or a couple of years, we decide to move to a different model'

Discussion: @pressgazette and @michaelsavage

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:

Jacobin: A Marxist rag run on a lot of petty-bourgeois hustle — Jacobin Magazine was founded by Bhaskar Sunkara in 2010 while he was still a student at George Washington University. Sunkara had self-identified as a socialist since middle school — or, in his own words, “way too young to make those kind of decisions.”

Discussion: @raju, @niemanlab and American Press Institute

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:

With a brand new website, The Baffler seeks the audience and impact it missed the first time around. — John Summers was working at Harvard in 2012 when he decided to relaunch The Baffler. The Baffler was a zine founded in 1988 by Thomas Frank and Keith White at the University of Virginia …

Discussion: @thebafflermag, @petersterne and @niemanlab

Nick Paumgarten / New Yorker:

GoPro became more than just another camcorder by riding the wave of broad video distribution — We Are a Camera — Late one fall afternoon two years ago, Aaron Chase, a professional mountain biker, was riding his bike in the Smoky Mountains, near Sun Valley, Idaho.